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Facebook overhauls profiles with Timeline

September 22, 2011, 2:45pm PDT | Length: 00:03:50
At the F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduces a revamped profile page called Timeline, which gives users more control and a chance to look back on everything they've ever published on the social network.

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Facebook overhauls profiles with Timeline

>> Mark: Background noise Millions and millions of people have spent years curetting the stories of their lives, and today there's just no good way to share them. We think that this is a real problem, and we think that we have the solution. Instead of having to go to the bottom of your wall and clicking more, imagine expressing the story of your life where you have all the recent stuff that you've done and then all the most important and meaningful things from your life are highlighted and called out for you to see right there, and because these are the unique moments in your life, imagine an expressions that is beautiful. So if the original profile was the first five minutes of your conversation and the stream was the next fifteen, then what I want to show you today is the rest. It's the next few hours of a great, in-depth, engaging conversation whether it's with a close friend or with someone you just met. It's the heart of your Facebook experience, completely rethought from the ground up. So this is the first thing that I want to show you today. We've been working on it all year, and we're calling it Timeline.

Applause Timeline is the story of your life, and it has three pieces-all your stories, all your apps, and a new way to express who you are. All your stories, all your apps, and a new way to express who you are. So let's take a look at Timeline. Now, the first thing you're going to notice is that it's just a lot more visual. Down at the bottom here, you have all your stories, or here's a nice visual. This is a photo of a bunch of engineers at Facebook working on some of the product that we're going to roll out today. This bottom section, all your stories, it's just like the wall. It's just laid out much more nicely designed. Over on the right there, you'll see years, and you can just use that to quickly get to any point in your life, and you can just see all your content. In the middle here are these visual tiles. So you can get to all of your apps and all of the stuff that you've done in any of your apps and, of course, on top is the cover photo so you can express who you are. All your stories, all your apps, a new way to express who you are. It's all here.

Applause So now, let's take a look at a full Timeline, and here we go. You just scroll past. It rolls up all the stuff from your life, great photos, a map of the places that I've been, some food that I've cooked, a Mark Zuckerberg doll, some friends that I've made, all the places that I've been to, and it just keeps going, and there are all the years of my life-right here--all the way to my...to the bottom. Laughter

Applause And here's what it would look like on a mobile device.

Applause There you go. We'll just breeze through that. Same cute baby photo. Background noise

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RE: Facebook overhauls profiles with Timeline
pc_techs_ct@... 27th Sep
Zuckerberg: "We've been working on it all year, and we're calling it 'Timeline' "

Audience: Stunned silence, followed by tepid applause from a few Facebook wonks.

LOL.
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Zuckerbergs way of presenting
ebonnert 24th Sep
Is it just me or is he really trying to sound like Steve Jobs?
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@ebonnert I was going to write "He's trying to look like Steve Jobs on-stage. It ain't working. He sounds lame". Then I saw your post.
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Zuckerberg: "We've been working on it all year, and we're calling it 'Timeline' "

Audience: Stunned silence, followed by tepid applause from a few Facebook wonks.

LOL.

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